4 Boston Police Officers Taken To Hospital After Possible Chemical Exposure
BOSTON (CBS) – Four Boston Police officers were taken to the hospital Thursday morning after they were exposed to a man who may have been cooking meth.
A police department spokesman told WBZ-TV officers arrested a man for breaking into a car on West Brookline Street just before 5 a.m.
He was taken back to the District 4 substation on Harrison Avenue in the South End and that's where officers say the man "had in his possession a product used to cook meth."
The officers were checked at the substation for "exposure symptoms," according to police.
Four of them were taken to the hospital as a precaution.
They were later released and are expected to be o.k., police said.
4 officers sent to hospital as a precaution after being exposed to chemicals.#hazmat pic.twitter.com/bt1xY1QI4h
— Karen Twomey (@KarenTwomeyV) November 19, 2015
No names have been released and there's no word yet on what substances the man had when he was arrested.
No other information is available at this point in the investigation.